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Events from the year 2008 in Algeria.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abdelaziz Bouteflika</span> President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Provinces of Algeria</span> Administrative divisions of the country in North Africa

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dellys</span> City and Daira in Boumerdès Province, Algeria

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)</span> Sunni Islamic terrorism in the Maghreb

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Events from the year 2009 in Algeria

Events from the year 2010 in Algeria

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Events from the year 2011 in Algeria

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ali Haddad</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">2014 Algerian presidential election</span>

Presidential elections were held in Algeria on 17 April 2014. Incumbent President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected with 82% of the vote. Issues in the campaign included a desire for domestic stability after the bloody civil war of the 1990s, the state of the economy, the frail health of the 15 year incumbent and 77-year-old president whose speech was "slurred and inaudible" in his only public outing during the campaign, and the less-than-wholehearted support given the president by the normally united and discrete ruling class.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hirak (Algeria)</span> Protests against the government

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mostefa Bouchachi</span>

Mostefa Bouchachi, born in 1954 in Sidi Abdelaziz, in the current Jijel Province, Algeria, is an Algerian lawyer and politician.

Many bombings were committed during the Algerian Civil War that began in 1991. The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) claimed responsibility for many of them, while for others no group has claimed responsibility. These terrorist incidents generated a widespread sense of fear in Algeria. The number of bombings peaked in 2007, with a smaller peak in 2002, and they were particularly concentrated in the areas between Algiers and Tizi Ouzou, with very few occurring in the east or in the Sahara.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1962 Algerian crisis</span> Period of political unrest in Algeria

The 1962 Algerian crisis, also known as the 1962 Algerian coup d'état, was a period of political unrest that happened after Algeria gained independence from France on 5 July 1962. It was a power struggle between factions within the National Liberation Front. It involved the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic headed by Benyoucef Benkhedda against the Oujda Group headed by Ahmed Ben Bella.

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